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Original Article
doi: 10.1590/S1980-5764-2016DN1003006
This study was conducted at the Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Medicina Botucatu, Departamento de Neurologia, Psicologia and Psiquiatria, Botucatu
SP, Brazil.
1
Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Medicina Botucatu, Departamento de Neurologia, Psicologia and Psiquiatria, Botucatu SP, Brazil. 2Servio de Psicologia, Hospital das Clnicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, PS, Brazil. 3Universidade Estadual Paulista, Instituto de Biocincias, Departamento de Estatstica,
Botucatu SP, Brazil. 4Residente de Neurologia, Faculdade de Medicina Botucatu, SP, Brazil. 5Servio de Reabilitao, Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina
de Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
Arthur Oscar Schelp. Departamento Neurologia / Psicologia e Psiquiatria / Faculdade Medicina de Botucatu / UNESP Rubio Jr, S/N 18618-970 Botucatu
SP Brazil. E-mail: aschelp@fmb.unesp.br
Disclosure: The authors report no conflicts of interest.
Received May 05, 2016. Accepted in final form July 11, 2016.
INTRODUCTION
METHODS
Study design and procedure. A cross-sectional observa-
incidental and immediate memory, learning, verbal fluency, delayed recall (after 5 min), and recognition tasks
(recognition of ten familiar figures presented among
new ones). Specialized psychologists applied the test. If
the patients were in the ON or extreme OFF phase, the
tests were repeated at another date and time, and only
this second evaluation was included in the analysis. The
patients with episodic memory compromise (delayed
recall with cut-off score 7), were classified as instances
of dementia. The MDRS includes five subscales of distinct cognitive domains: attention, initiative/perseverance, construction, conceptualization and memory, with
a cut-off score of 122. Socio-demographic (sex, age, and
formal education level) and clinical history (diagnosis
and treatment time) data were collected.
Selection and description of participants.Over a period
RESULTS
Among the 125 patients studied, 12 did not finish the
proposed analysis, giving a total of 113 patients, of
which 63.6% were male. The mean age of the sample
was 68.099.43 years and the mean formal education
level was 3.913.23 years. The mean length of time
since the patients developed PD was 7.675.22 years.
Tables 1 and 2 depict patient socio-demographic data
and results on the screening battery of sub-tests. A
DISCUSSION
The socio-demographic characteristics of the sample
studied (Table 1) are similar to those of the general
elderly population in Brazil,16 except for the predominance of males in the group. This could be explained by
the fact that PD is more prevalent in men of advanced
age.17 Formal education is relevant to the present
study, since it was associated with worse results on the
subtests (Table 2). As has been observed elsewhere,18
formal education is markedly deficient in Brazil.
Some studies call attention to the heterogeneous
pattern of cognitive dysfunction in patients newly diagnosed with PD.19 The question of whether there is a type
of dementia specifically associated with PD remains a
Performance on
screening sub-tests
MeanSD
Minimum
Maximum
Median
Age
68.099.43
113
42.00
83.00
70.00
3.913.23
93
0.00
15.00
4.00
7.675.22
111
1.00
23.00
6.00
Identification/Naming
9.711.26
110
1.00
10.00
10.00
Incidental memory
5.141.80
110
0.00
9.00
5.00
Immediate memory
6.552.32
110
0.00
10.00
7.00
Learning
7.272.32
110
0.00
10.00
8.00
Delayed recall
6.152.82
110
0.00
10.00
7.00
Recognition
8.352.71
110
0.00
10.00
9.50
Occurrence
(n=46)
p-value*
Age
64.949.68
72.676.90
<0.0001
4.383.42
3.322.92
0.0874
7.454.98
7.915.40
0.7692
Identification/naming
9.751.23
9,641.32
0.3760
Incidental memory
5.691.52
4.331.88
0.0001
Immediate memory
7.491.96
5.202.15
0.0001
Learning
8.371.76
5.692.11
0.0001
Delayed recall
7.632.04
4.022.41
0.0001
Recognition
9.421.41
6.803.35
0.0001
Variables
Socio-demographic variables
Table 3. Model of multiple linear regression for performance on BBRCEdu (dependent variable 5 min.
recall memory).
Variables
Estimate
Std. Error
pvalue
Intercept
14.19824
3.74899
0.0005
Age
0.13981
0.05100
0.0094
0.20501
0.11375
0.0797
0.07230
0.06131
0.2459
Estimate
Std. Error
pvalue
Intercept
208.10242
37.74367
<.0.0001
Age
1.57871
0.51344
0.0039
2.58489
1.14519
0.0300
0.69516
0.61728
0.2673
The demonstration of a relationship between dementia and ageing in patients with PD corroborate the
results of other studies.1,4,5 An earlier study reported a
wide spectrum of impairments in neuropsychological
function emerging with ageing, including, in particular, dementia associated with memory dysfunction.2
In the cited report, patients with late onset Parkinsonism performed worse than those with early onset in
all memory functions, particularly in picture completion and associative learning (Wechsler memory scale
I). Another study failed to find differences in memory
impairment among an early and late-onset group, compared with age-matched controls24 and questioned the
possibility of concomitant AD pathology. However, the
fact that episodic memory dysfunction is significantly
correlated with aging in patients with PD reinforces the
hypothesis that dementia involving memory deterioration during PD could result from concurrent AD. The
existence of two cognitive syndromes of PD was outlined by a previous cohort study;25 PD may involve two
distinct cognitive syndromes that evolve independently,
with the dementia related to an increase in tau protein
transcription, and effects on dopaminergic structures
associated with frontal-executive disorders. Dementia
was diagnosed in patients with a Mini-Mental State
Examination (MMSE) score of 2.27 After 7.9 years of
follow-up, the data showed a persistent strong statistical
Construction
Conceptualization
Memory
Total
0.41
0.50
0.50
0.37
0.35
0.50
0.014
0.002
0.002
0.028
0.038
0.002
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